A LITTLE REVIEW ABOUT CHITIKA AD NETWORK

TYPE	PRIVATE OWNED
INDUSTRY	INTERNET ADVERTISING
FOUNDER	SHREWSBURY, MASSACHUSETTS
YEAR	MAY, 2003
HEADQUARTER	WESTBOROUGH, USA
PRUDUCTS	SEARCH TARGETED TEXT ADS, MOBILE ADS
WEBSITE	CHITIKA.COM

Payment

Chitika offers the fastest way to cash out your revenue: PayPal. Your account needs to accumulate the minimum amount of $10.00 before a PayPal payment is sent.
Payments are processed on a 'net 30' schedule. This means, if you sign up on January 9th and accumulate a minimum of $10.00 by January 30th, you will receive your payment at the end of February (if the balance has cleared the minimum payment amount)

Chitika Payment Rating: 4 out of 5.

·         Payment Methods Available: Check and PayPal.

·         Payment Terms: Net-30.

·         Minimum Payout Threshold: $10

What you need to do to get paid in chitika

According to chitika help centre, and how it work, the following is what you need to do to get paid

1. You MUST fill out your tax form 

All Chitika publishers, no matter where they live, where their visitors are from, and where their servers are located, must fill out a tax form. If you are a United States citizen or resident alien, you must fill out the W-9 tax form. All other publishers must fill out the W-8BEN tax form. 

Fill out your tax form by logging in to the PartnerCenter and clicking Account > Tax Forms.

Tax forms must be submitted by the 5th of the month in order to receive payment in that month. If you submit your tax form after the 5th of the month, you will be paid out in the following month, provided you have reached your minimum payment threshold. 


2. You MUST reach the payment threshold for your given payment method in the previous month.

Chitika operates on a Net-30 schedule. This means that the revenue earned in one month will be paid out at the end of the following month. For example, if you earn $10 in March, you will be issued that $10 payment at the end of April. 

For PayPal, your payment threshold is set at $10. This threshold cannot be changed. Your PayPal account must be in good standing in order for you to receive payment this way.

3. You MUST verify your PayPal account and confirm it in our system.

You will need to verify your account by logging into PayPal and following the instructions Once verified you will need to enter the First Name, Last Name, and PayPal Address as it is in your Chitika account on the Payment Setting page.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF CHITIKA

The following terms and conditions of chitika, if you are planning in using them to monetize your blog/website, read the following terms and conditions of chitika very carefully before signing up.

Program Participation.

 Participation in the Program is subject to Client's continued compliance with the Program Policies and Details which are set forth on Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part hereof, or such other URL as Chitika may provide to Client from time to time. Client agrees that Chitika may supply Paid Listings via a third party distributor and/or Chitika provided advertisements to the Website that Client designates ("Site") as set forth on Exhibit A. Client can choose to use the service on any website as long as the website meets the program policies listed in Exhibit A below. Client must be 18 years or older to participate in this program.

1.     Prohibited Uses

 Client shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) generate fraudulent impressions of or fraudulent clicks on any Paid Listing, including but not limited to repeated manual clicks, the use of robots or other automated query tools and/or computer generated search requests, and/or the fraudulent use of other search engine optimization services and/or software; (ii) edit, modify, filter or change the order of the information contained in any Paid Listing or Paid Listing Unit, or remove, obscure or minimize any Paid Listing or Paid Listing Unit in any way; (iii) frame any Web page accessed by an end user after clicking on any part of a Paid Listing link ("Advertiser Page"); (iv) redirect an end user away from the Advertiser Page, provide a version of the Advertiser Page different from the page an end user would access by going directly to the Advertiser Page or intersperse any content between the Paid Listing and the Advertiser Page; (v) display any Paid Listing on any error page, registration or "thank you" page (e.g. a page that thanks a user after he/she has registered with the applicable Web site), or in any email or on any Web page or any Web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related or violent content ; or (vi) act in any way that violates any Program Policies posted on the Chitika Web Site, as may be revised from time to time. Violation of any of the foregoing may result in immediate termination of this Agreement; (vii) disclose information related to the click through rates, CPCs and other statistics.

FINAL CONCLUSION ABOUT USING CHITIKA TO MONETIZE YOUR BLOG

Chitika uses what’s called non-contextual advertising which means it’s showing ads that don’t relate to the content that the readers are reading. Chitika is one of the best alternative to Google Adsense, perform almost equivalent to Google Adsense.

Making it in chitika by pay per click really depends on types of content you are providing to your readers.

Chitika is really good alternative use to google ad sense or even use them both.